[Harp-L] Sorry I haven't written lately..

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Reeders;
                        I've been 'offlist' for, I dunno, a year or two. I decided to mind my own opinions for a while until I could actually post some hard evidence (ie playing)
                        Well, the fabulous session hasn't actually taken place yet (I'm getting there though)
                        Meantime, here is a clip of me playing with some friends on national TV here in Oz.
                        It only lasts 90 seconds, so at least it's short and (hopefully) sweet.
                        The show is the Australian Broadcasting Commissions music quiz show 'Spicks and Specks' and we were commissioned to perform a song written by a staff member that followed up on a quiz question about John Lennon's skiffle band, the 'Quarrymen', in which Lennon lost his temper with the washboard player and broke the thing over his head.
                        Evidently he bought the guy a supermarket on one of the Channel islands in later years to regain some karma.
                        We were given the words and we set them to the old 'Mama don't allow..' changes.
                        I get a solo, which I take in my quasi-Gwen Foster influenced style.
                        If I seem to be looking at my feet, that's because I was reading the lyrics attached to the foldback speaker.
                        Click on this link:http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#  and go to the 'Spicks and Specks' Episode 21 bit at the bottom left side.
                        We appear in the last couple of minutes of the show.

Hoping all are well in harp-l land,
Rick Dempster
Melbourne, Australia